RKS Poetry Anthology: “The Fascist playbook new edition and old strategy”

The Fascist playbook new edition and old strategy

Those in The 50 beware

True and tested ensconced in a revised playbook edition

Resurrect Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin

with

a new fascist tradition

Resisting will be sedition

Create a historical myth of some fictional purity

Always better in days of yore

secret police required proudly bearing the ideological mission

Identifiable by uniforms of sorts

Immune from all civil torts

Bash, stun, drag away and occasionally murder

Excused and justified in the war against scapegoats

Control the press by first demeaning

After all what is more threatening than their perceived oppositional leaning

Big brother pictures to adorn all

Especially on the screen and the major cultural halls

Stack the judiciary to assist in the implementation and enforcement of your mission

Rulings of justification to enforce the new laws

And justify the locking of opposition jaws

Create a phalanx of enemies threatening the utopian mission

Corrupt the electoral process in the guise of fairness

Or better yet seize power in coups

Your downfall of course is hopefully not all are dupes

So for you in The 50

A rough road lies ahead

Play it wrong and thousands will be imprisoned or dead

To the dogs liberalism shall be fed

Robert K. Stephen